Upcoming Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Poles by Choice: How Returnees, Migrants, and Refugees Are Shaping the New Poland	Mon, 06.10.2025, 17:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Taras Fedirko Ula Idzikowska		Poles by Choice: How Returnees, Migrants, and Refugees Are Shaping the New Poland Fellows' Colloquium with Ula Idzikowska Mon, 06.10.2025, 17:00 Speakers: Taras Fedirko Ula Idzikowska Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellow's Colloquium, Ula Idzikowska will present initial findings from her research on Poland’s redefinition as a destination country, also reflecting on the ways in which political discourse has instrumentalized migration within populist rhetoric. Read more
Poles by Choice: How Returnees, Migrants, and Refugees Are Shaping the New Poland Fellows' Colloquium with Ula Idzikowska Mon, 06.10.2025, 17:00 Speakers: Taras Fedirko Ula Idzikowska Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellow's Colloquium, Ula Idzikowska will present initial findings from her research on Poland’s redefinition as a destination country, also reflecting on the ways in which political discourse has instrumentalized migration within populist rhetoric. Read more
	Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies	Tue, 07.10.2025, 18:00	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Marta Bucholc	REGISTER HERE	Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies Tue, 07.10.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marta Bucholc Series: Lecture In many countries that have recently gone through political transitions, nationalism has re-emerged as a powerful force. Nationalist politics cast women’s and minorities’ rights as threats to the nation’s survival, tying them to fears of migration, low birth rates, or religious tradition. Marta Bucholc argues that reproductive rights are a central arena where the future of democracy and equality is being decided. Read more
Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies Tue, 07.10.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marta Bucholc Series: Lecture In many countries that have recently gone through political transitions, nationalism has re-emerged as a powerful force. Nationalist politics cast women’s and minorities’ rights as threats to the nation’s survival, tying them to fears of migration, low birth rates, or religious tradition. Marta Bucholc argues that reproductive rights are a central arena where the future of democracy and equality is being decided. Read more
	The Energy Transition and Critical Raw Materials	Mon, 13.10.2025, 08:30 - Tue, 14.10.2025, 16:30	Conferences and Workshops	Artem Gergun Gwendolyn MurphyCasper Herler, Dragana Đorđević, Gertrude Saxinger, Holger Paulick, Isabel Hilton, Jann Weinand, Joan Simon, John Uponi, Carlos Urenda, Mark Nuttall, Michael Tost, Pavel Kavina, Peter Klimek, Naja Dyrendom Graugaard, Thomas Hale, Jost Wübbeke		The Energy Transition and Critical Raw Materials  Mon, 13.10.2025, 08:30 - Tue, 14.10.2025, 16:30 Speakers: Artem Gergun Gwendolyn MurphyCasper Herler, Dragana Đorđević, Gertrude Saxinger, Holger Paulick, Isabel Hilton, Jann Weinand, Joan Simon, John Uponi, Carlos Urenda, Mark Nuttall, Michael Tost, Pavel Kavina, Peter Klimek, Naja Dyrendom Graugaard, Thomas Hale, Jost Wübbeke Series: Conferences and Workshops The IWM, together with its partners from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is hosting a closed conference to examine how Europe, in particular, is managing the scramble for CRMs. With limited local resources and underdeveloped networks, Europe is more vulnerable to disruptions and crises than other regions. The conference will explore new ideas for establishing sustainable supply chains that can be insulated against the prospect of geopolitical shocks. Read more
The Energy Transition and Critical Raw Materials  Mon, 13.10.2025, 08:30 - Tue, 14.10.2025, 16:30 Speakers: Artem Gergun Gwendolyn MurphyCasper Herler, Dragana Đorđević, Gertrude Saxinger, Holger Paulick, Isabel Hilton, Jann Weinand, Joan Simon, John Uponi, Carlos Urenda, Mark Nuttall, Michael Tost, Pavel Kavina, Peter Klimek, Naja Dyrendom Graugaard, Thomas Hale, Jost Wübbeke Series: Conferences and Workshops The IWM, together with its partners from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is hosting a closed conference to examine how Europe, in particular, is managing the scramble for CRMs. With limited local resources and underdeveloped networks, Europe is more vulnerable to disruptions and crises than other regions. The conference will explore new ideas for establishing sustainable supply chains that can be insulated against the prospect of geopolitical shocks. Read more
	Our Dear Friends in Moscow or What Happened to Moscow’s Public Intellectuals in Putin’s Russia?	Thu, 16.10.2025, 18:00	Lecture	Andrei Soldatov Clemena Antonova Irina BoroganVikram Rajan, Mirjana Tomic Petrovic, Dessy Gavrilova	REGISTER HERE	Our Dear Friends in Moscow or What Happened to Moscow’s Public Intellectuals in Putin’s Russia? Thu, 16.10.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Andrei Soldatov Clemena Antonova Irina BoroganVikram Rajan, Mirjana Tomic Petrovic, Dessy Gavrilova Series: Lecture In their new book, Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation, investigative journalists Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov tell the gripping story of a group of young reporters, who came of age in the years leading to the rise of Putin. The book is about the choices that that their friends and colleagues in Moscow ended up making––to resist or to compromise, to go into exile or to stay––and the cost that these decisions entailed. Read more
Our Dear Friends in Moscow or What Happened to Moscow’s Public Intellectuals in Putin’s Russia? Thu, 16.10.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Andrei Soldatov Clemena Antonova Irina BoroganVikram Rajan, Mirjana Tomic Petrovic, Dessy Gavrilova Series: Lecture In their new book, Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation, investigative journalists Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov tell the gripping story of a group of young reporters, who came of age in the years leading to the rise of Putin. The book is about the choices that that their friends and colleagues in Moscow ended up making––to resist or to compromise, to go into exile or to stay––and the cost that these decisions entailed. Read more
	Part I: Rethinking Gender Identity	Tue, 21.10.2025, 18:30	Lecture	Rogers Brubaker Ayşe Çağlar	Register here	Part I: Rethinking Gender Identity IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Tue, 21.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Rogers Brubaker Ayşe Çağlar Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The first lecture analyzes the performative, productive, interactive, and regulative workings of the gender identity category. Read more
Part I: Rethinking Gender Identity IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Tue, 21.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Rogers Brubaker Ayşe Çağlar Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The first lecture analyzes the performative, productive, interactive, and regulative workings of the gender identity category. Read more
	Part II: A Quiet Revolution	Thu, 23.10.2025, 18:30	Lecture	Rogers BrubakerAna Mijic	Register here	Part II: A Quiet Revolution IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Thu, 23.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Rogers BrubakerAna Mijic Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The second lecture will identify five intertwined processes that have shaped the “gender identity” category: the depathologization, universalization, vernacularization, legalization, and promotion of the category. Read more
Part II: A Quiet Revolution IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Thu, 23.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Rogers BrubakerAna Mijic Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The second lecture will identify five intertwined processes that have shaped the “gender identity” category: the depathologization, universalization, vernacularization, legalization, and promotion of the category. Read more
	Tsargrad Into Leningrad: Constantinople in the Early Bolshevik Imagination, 1917-1922	Mon, 27.10.2025, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Igor Torbakov		Tsargrad Into Leningrad: Constantinople in the Early Bolshevik Imagination, 1917-1922 Fellows' Colloquium with Igor Torbakov Mon, 27.10.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Igor Torbakov Series: Seminars and Colloquia This Fellows' Colloquium will demonstrate that, Russian imperial collapse notwithstanding, Constantinople’s allure was still strong enough in Bolshevik Moscow to generate outstanding literary works, artistic production, and geopolitical fantasizing. Russian political imagination during Istanbul’s short ‘Russian moment’ reflected a real multi-sided geopolitical rivalry over Constantinople. Read more
Tsargrad Into Leningrad: Constantinople in the Early Bolshevik Imagination, 1917-1922 Fellows' Colloquium with Igor Torbakov Mon, 27.10.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Igor Torbakov Series: Seminars and Colloquia This Fellows' Colloquium will demonstrate that, Russian imperial collapse notwithstanding, Constantinople’s allure was still strong enough in Bolshevik Moscow to generate outstanding literary works, artistic production, and geopolitical fantasizing. Russian political imagination during Istanbul’s short ‘Russian moment’ reflected a real multi-sided geopolitical rivalry over Constantinople. Read more
	Part III: A Decade of Contestation	Tue, 28.10.2025, 18:30	Lecture	Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker	Register here	Part III: A Decade of Contestation IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Tue, 28.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The third lecture will address the questions around controversies on bathroom access, eligibility for women’s sports, pronoun policies, school curricula, and gender medicine for youth as a moral panic. Read more
Part III: A Decade of Contestation IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Tue, 28.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The third lecture will address the questions around controversies on bathroom access, eligibility for women’s sports, pronoun policies, school curricula, and gender medicine for youth as a moral panic. Read more
	The Myth of Orestes and the Critique of Modernity	Mon, 03.11.2025, 17:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Piotr Augustyniak		The Myth of Orestes and the Critique of Modernity Fellows' Colloquium with Piotr Augustyniak Mon, 03.11.2025, 17:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Piotr Augustyniak Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Piotr Augustyniak will argue that, in political terms, the entry into the sphere of modernity signified the transition from the clan order to the order of the polis, culminating for the first time in the civic society of classical Athens. Read more
The Myth of Orestes and the Critique of Modernity Fellows' Colloquium with Piotr Augustyniak Mon, 03.11.2025, 17:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Piotr Augustyniak Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Piotr Augustyniak will argue that, in political terms, the entry into the sphere of modernity signified the transition from the clan order to the order of the polis, culminating for the first time in the civic society of classical Athens. Read more
	Krieg oder Frieden? Europas Verteidigungspolitik am Prüfstand	Sun, 09.11.2025, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Markus Reisner, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, Petra Erler, Petra Stuiber		Krieg oder Frieden? Europas Verteidigungspolitik am Prüfstand Europa im Diskurs Sun, 09.11.2025, 11:00 Speakers: Markus Reisner, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, Petra Erler, Petra Stuiber Series: Panels and Discussions Europas Sicherheit ist durch Krieg, hybride Angriffe und geopolitische Verschiebungen bedroht und stellt die europäische Verteidigungspolitik auf die Probe. Welche Kosten, Investitionen und Chancen damit verbunden sind, diskutieren wir mit hochkarätigen Gästen. Read more
Krieg oder Frieden? Europas Verteidigungspolitik am Prüfstand Europa im Diskurs Sun, 09.11.2025, 11:00 Speakers: Markus Reisner, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, Petra Erler, Petra Stuiber Series: Panels and Discussions Europas Sicherheit ist durch Krieg, hybride Angriffe und geopolitische Verschiebungen bedroht und stellt die europäische Verteidigungspolitik auf die Probe. Welche Kosten, Investitionen und Chancen damit verbunden sind, diskutieren wir mit hochkarätigen Gästen. Read more